Art in Tuscany | Maestro di Badia a Isola (Badia a Isola Master)

Maestro di Badia a Isola (Badia a Isola Master)

This anonymous artist, named after the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Two Angels in SS Salvatore e Cirino, Badia a Isola (near Monteriggioni, Siena), is a problematic figure. At the one extreme, the Badia a Isola panel and related works have been viewed as early works by Duccio di Buoninsegna; at the other, a much expanded corpus of works for the artist has been proposed. A number of critics agree in grouping a Virgin and Child (Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale, 593), a polyptych that once contained a St Paul, a St John the Evangelist and a St Peter (South Hadley, MA, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum), a St John the Baptist (Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, 608), a Virgin and Child (Utrecht, Catharijneconvent), a Redeemer and four Angels (untraced) and a Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels (Venice, Collezione Vittorio Cini), but other attributions are widely debated.

The painter of the Badia a Isola panel, a distinct and independent artistic personality, was conservative, blending elements from the tradition of Guido da Siena with the newer style of Duccio. His early work is markedly sculptural and spatially assertive; his later production is less so. The Badia a Isola panel is the most important of the Master's surviving works insofar as it seems to document stylistic features of Sienese art in the 1290s that are less visible elsewhere. [1]

Works by Maestro di Badia a Isola
Madonna col Bambino in trono e due angeli (Maestà)



Master of Badia a Isola, Maestà, da Abbadia a Isola, 1290-1300 ca., Colle di Val d'Elsa, Civic and Diocesan Sacred Art Museum, Province of Siena
Other Works According to stylistic considerations the following works can be attributed to the Maestro di Badia a Isola : Panels Madonna col Bambino, tempera su tavola, 65x50 cm, (Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale, n. 593)[2]; polittico, tempera su tavola, già nella collezione Ramboux e poi smembrato e disperso[3]: Madonna col Bambino, frammento di 40x41 cm (Utrecht, Museo Arcivescovile) San Giovanni Battista, 62x30 cm (Colonia, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, inv. 608) San Paolo, San Giovanni Evangelista, San Pietro, (frammenti) (South Hadley (Massachusetts), Mount Holyoke College Art Museum) Cristo Redentore benedicente e angeli, coronamento della pala (ubicazione sconosciuta) Maestà tempera su tavola, 172x103 cm (Venezia, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Raccolta d'arte dalla Collezione Vittorio Cini) Madonna col Bambino, tempera su tavola (Indianapolis (IN), The Clowes Fund, Fine Arts Department)[4] Madonna con Bambino in trono e angeli, tempera su tavola, 230x142 cm (Washington (DC), National Gallery of Art, inv. 1961.9.77 - Kress 2063), dalla chiesa dei SS. Quirico e Giulitta di San Quirico d'Orcia[5] Madonna col Bambino e due angeli dossale, 124x147 cm (Montepulciano, Museo comunale)[6] Frescoes Agnello mistico e due angeli, frammentario (Casole d'Elsa, Collegiata, sepolcro del vescovo Tommaso d'Andrea)[7] Madonna col Bambino e san Francesco (Montepulciano, chiesa di San Biagio)
[1] Source: Save Venice Inc. \| www.savevenice.org
Bibliography Enzo Carli, Vetrata duccesca, Firenze 1946 Gertrude Coor-Achenbach, Contributions to the study of Ugolino di Nerio's art, in "The Art Bulletin", XXXVII (1955), pp. 153-165. Gertrude Coor-Achenbach, A disperded Polyptych by the Badia a Isola Master, in "The Art Bulletin", XXXIV (1952), pp.311-317. Gertrude Coor-Achenbach, The "Missing" Panel from a dispersed Polyptych by the Badia a Isola Master, in "The Art Bulletin", XXXVIII (1956), p. 119. Gertrude Coor-Achenbach, The Early Nineteenth-Century Aspect of a Dispersed Polyptych by the Badia a Isola Master, in "The Art Bulletin", XLII (1960), p. 143. James H. Stubblebine, Duccio di Buoninsegna and his school, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1979, 2 voll. ISBN 0-691-03944-5 Alessandro Bagnoli, Ma non è Duccio. La Maestà di Badia a Isola (Siena), in "Art dossier", X (1987), pp.12-13.


Maestro di Badia a Isola, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels (Maestà,), c. 1315, Galleria Palazzo Cini, Venice	Follower of Duccio (Master of Badia a Isola), Maestà, National Gallery of Art Washington	Maestro di Badia a Isola, Madoona and Child with st. Francis, San Biagio, Montepulciano
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Save Venice Inc. \| www.savevenice.org The Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels in the Galleria Palazzo Cini in Venice, an important Tuscan panel painting of the early 14th century attributed to the Master of Badia a Isola, was restored by Save Venice Inc. and Friends of Florence in 2016. Art in Tuscany \| Master of Badia A Isola Arte in Toscana \| Master of Badia A Isola
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